Volume 20 Issue 4 May 2017 The Voice of the Vancouver Island Region - Porsche Club of America
In this issue Curtis Wrobel, My Porsche, Nanaimo Tech Night, Dean’s Dinner, 000 Magazine, Breakfast & Drive, Detailing
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REGULARS 4 VIR PCA Executive 6 Executive Comment 17 Coffee & Cars Photos 19 Discounts / Comp Corner
FEATURES Curtis Wrobel 9 Black Rock 2017 11 Breakfast N Drive 12 My Porsche 14
35 Around The Bend
Dean’s Dinner 21
36 Club Classifieds & Goodies
Off The Island 24 Nanaimo Tech Night 25 Review—000 Magazine 27 Detailing – 2 31
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VIR PCA Executive Martin Mansfield President president@virpca.org
Dave Nickel Director—Website webms@virpca.org
James Renfrew Vice President vicepresident@virpca.org
Wendy Woodley Director—North Island upisland@virpca.org
Michael Holan Secretary secretary@virpca.org
Dean Aikenhead Director—Mid Island midisland@virpca.org
Tim Evans Treasurer treasurer@virpca.org
Didier Moinier Director—South Island southisland@virpca.org
John McGurran Director—Membership membership@virpca.org
Conrad Peden Director—Competition competition@virpca.org
Steve Fairbrother Director—Newsletter Newsletter@virpca.org PORSCHER — MAY 2017
Brad Blaney Past President pastpresident@virpca.org
Conrad Peden Unofficial Driver Education Chair competition@virpca.org
Tim Hagner PCA Zone 6 Representative simtue@gmail.com Page 4
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Executive Comment
or those of you who do not know I live with five girls in my life. I am not sure how my Boxster has not been painted pink yet! I can happily report that it has survived another Easter. The Easter Bunny is very sneaky with his egg placement but for some unknown reason did not hide any near the car. Brandi has been racing her Porsche around the house and has taken a very keen liking to Sally Porsche. I think I might have to start trying to find her a Porsche factory racing suit! We had some great events in April — Brad’s Breakfast & Drive and Dean’s Tech Night at European Specialty both were well attended. May is shaping up to be a very busy month with Wendy’s Quadra Island Jaunt and Black Rock 2017. Club members are invited to come up to Ucluelet and attend the public events put on at Black Rock 2017 :Friday Night—BBQ / Fireworks by donation to the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade Saturday Morning—Pancake breakfast by donation to the UVFB, Show ‘n’ Shine downtown Ucluelet Sunday Morning—Parade of Porsches through Ucluelet Please contact the Black Rock Committee for more details – virblackrock@gmail.com
Martin Mansfield President
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hope you have noticed the advertisements that are included in Porscher now. I do try to vary them and have something interesting for all our members. Please take the time to click on the adverts as they all have links to the companies’ web sites (e.g. click on this poster image) and unless they see traffic from us they may not keep coming back, so take a few minutes and please look at them all if you can. Many are supporting us at Black Rock too by providing donations or prizes for the auctions, so they really do deserve your attention and patronage! VIR PCA reached out again to renown graphic artist Steve Anderson who created the Porsche car history poster that we have given away over the past year to winners of our contests etc. We also now have his original poster celebrating “50 years of 911” as shown here and just includes the evolution of the 911. Steve was kind enough to sign all the posters too. So if you fancy one of these posters, you can win one by sending in a photo of your Porsche, a funny caption to a Porsche related photo or anything you think is worthy of publishing and would be interesting to your fellow members of VIR PCA.
Steve Fairbrother Newsletter Director PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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Executive Comment (cont) Membership Our New Members We continue to welcome many new members to the Vancouver Island Region, many more than in recent years it seems. Our rate of growth is greater than PCA’s, overall. The most recent report from the PCA national office tells us we are 467 members strong. Welcome new members joining in the month of March: David Bligh (primary member) Nanoose Bay Tyson Johnson (primary member) Victoria Duane Lachance (primary member) Victoria Phil MacIntyre (primary member) Victoria Brad Skeeles (primary member) Nanaimo Dave Turner (primary member) Port Alberni James Waterfield (primary member) Victoria Simon Young (primary member) Mill Bay
2007 Boxster S 1987 911 Carrera 2002 Boxster S 2015 Boxster GTS 2006 911 Carrera S Cabriolet 1998 Boxster 2011 Boxster 2009 Cayman
APRIL 2017 ANNIVERSARIES 15 years Dave & Simone Manchip 10 Years Steen Carstensen & Dorothy Alexander 5 Years John Corbet, Colin & Heather Gans, Thom Russell 1 year Jason Leslie, Murray & Jan Brown, Ken Charbonneau MEMBER RECOGNITION FROM PCA NATIONAL OFFICE PCA recognizes and values long-serving members as outlined below. This recognition comes from National Office. If you meet the criteria and have not received recognition, please let me know and I will look into this on your behalf. Anniversary Decals - Active Members who complete 5, 10, 15 or 20 years of membership will receive a special anniversary decal indicating the length of membership. Those completing 25 years will receive a special silver ringed decal. Members completing 30 years or more will receive a special gold ringed decal. Anniversary Certificates - A certificate commemorating membership of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 55 years and longer is sent along with the anniversary decal. Membership Pins - Members who have completed twenty-five or fifty years of membership are entitled to a 25 or 50 year gold pin. Forty-Year Membership Name Badge - A member who has completed forty years of membership in the Porsche Club of America will be issued a club name badge. PCA also recognizes Region Anniversaries. VIRPCA reached its 20th in 2016 and was feted accordingly. Those of you who were members last year received a special car window decal and a 20 th anniversary name tag.
John McGurran Membership Director PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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Executive Comment (cont)
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n a beautiful sunny April 21 in the Comox Valley, I along with members Gary, George, James, Jackie, Steven, Karen, and Trevor (see picture below), were pleased to present a VIRPCA cheque for $760 to Emily Priestley, Branch Manager, Comox Valley SPCA. This presentation took a while, but as you Porsche drivers know, Mother Nature threw us a “soft white” curve ball this winter!! This money was raised at Comox Valley monthly Cars and Coffee last November for PORSCHES HELPING PETS and at our Club 2016 AGM. We also collected 8 big bags of clean, gently used towels for the SPCA. Thank you to all our members that contributed to the 2016 PORSCHES HELPING PETS. On June 10, we shall be celebrating the 2nd PORSCHES HELPING PETS at our monthly C.V. Cars & Coffee. If you wish to donate $ or towels and are unable to attend just get in touch with me at the email below and arrangements will be made, thanks! On May 6/7, I am organizing the QUADRA ISLAND JAUNT + WINE TASTING, and I have room for a few more members (Info here on our website events page. It includes an overnight stay at Tsa Kwa Luten Resort, but if you just wish to join us for Saturday, that works as well.
Wendy Woodley North Island Director
PCA Test Drive Do you know someone with Porsche ownership intentions or aspirations? Tell them about the PCA Test Drive program. For $40 they get 6 months access to PANORAMA and defined access to browse the online PCA Mart to find their Porsche. Contact membership@virpca.org for details. PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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Curtis Wrobel
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t is with sadness I pass on to you the news that Curtis Wrobel passed away suddenly on April 8th at the age of 51.
Curtis was not a VIR PCA member, however with his many years volunteering at autocross and Black Rock, he may as well have been one. Curtis will be remembered for his stand out personality and great sense of humour, he always had the right tips for shaving seconds off your autocross runs. Curtis always had a way to get you laughing as you waited your turn to head out onto the course. Many members will have very fond memories of the times shared with Curtis. There is an online Guest Book open until May 10th for those who wish to share your memories or express your condolences.to Curtis' wife Melanie who invited the club to his Celebration of Life at First Memorial Funeral Services, Victoria on Friday April 21st.
Images from Curtis’ obituary photo gallery at dignitymemorial.com
Donations may be made in Curtis' name to Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation or a charity of your choice. She has also asked for any pictures you may have of Curtis to be sent to her at :mhcm.wrobel@hotmail.ca
Martin Mansfield President
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VIR PCA Need something for your Porsche? Have something Porsche related to sell? Classifieds are free for Members! Contact Steve at newsletter@virpca.org
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Black Rock 2017 here is now only a few weeks until VIR PCA’s infamous 4-day charity event starts in Ucluelet at the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort. I say infamous because word does travel across the regions as to how good the weekend is, especially when the National PCA Executive have come and experienced it for themselves!
Dan Bourlet and the BR Committee are busy completing action items from their plans to enable the smooth running of such an event as this. It takes months of detailed planning and obviously feedback from previous years is used to make each subsequent year better than the last.
Thursday, May 25 3pm – 5pm 5:30pm – 6:30pm 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Friday, May 26 7am 8am – 3:30 pm 9am and 9.30am 10am – 3:30 pm 3pm – 5pm 4pm – 5pm 7pm After dusk
Registration – Ballroom Whisky Tasting – Wine Cellar Welcome Social – Resort Lobby
Hotel Continental Breakfast $18 Autocross at Tofino Airport Whale Watching (3 or 4 hrs) Porsche Overland Event Registration – Lobby HPDE Class – Ballroom Salmon BBQ/Bonfire by UVFB (by donation) Fireworks
Saturday, May 27 7am – 9:30am
8am – 3:30pm 11am – 4pm 11am – 4pm 1:30pm – 3pm 3:30pm – 4:30pm 5:30pm 6:30pm 7pm 8pm
Sunday, May 28 8:30am
9am – Noon Noon
Pancake Breakfast, Car Park (by donation) HPDE at Tofino Airport Show & Shine – Village Green Walking Poker Rally Guided Nature Walk Turn in poker cards – Lobby Banquet, bar open – Lobby Banquet, ballroom door open Banquet dinner – Ballroom Banquet. social time, prizes, and Cops for Cancer Auction – Ballroom RCMP/Porsche Parade – Ucluelet Breakfast Buffet, UVFB Auction Ballroom Participants depart
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Breakfast ‘n’ Drive unday, April 9th dawned overcast—not quite spring but at least not still winter! Good enough for over 30 club members in over 20 Porsches, to meet for an early morning breakfast and drive. At 8am, we gathered at the Eagle Creek Village to enjoy a $5 breakfast special and mingle with the Cars & Coffee crowd that gathers there every Sunday.
We departed the parking lot before 10am and navigated our way through ‘downtown’ Colwood. I pulled over to the side of Metchosin Road by the old gravel pit for a head count. I guess I picked a good group, they all followed instructions and no one got lost!
From there we continued along the various backroads of East Sooke; Happy Valley Road; Rocky Point Road and eventually onto East Sooke Road, which we followed all the way to the end. Twisty, turny and great fun! We gathered at the turn around just outside the gates to Sookepoint, for a stretch and a photo opportunity.
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pavement! As we once again approached Colwood, we snaked down to the ocean, to take in the views and a stop at Esquimalt Lagoon before returning to Eagle Creek Village, just past noon. It was a great first drive of the year for many! Great breakfast, great roads, great views, it was all great! And of course fantastic Porsche people!
Brad Blaney Past President Editor—See more pictures from the Coffee & Cars at Eagle Creek later in this issue.
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My Porsche
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thought it would be fun to share the story of my car with all of you. My 944 suffered transmission problems and I decided it was time to find something newer with less problems.
I began searching Autotrader, Craigslist and the PCA classifieds. On May 17, 2013 I travelled to Vancouver to look at a few cars. The first ones were on used car lots and had cosmetic damage such as big tears in the seat etc. I also looked at a 2006 Midnight Blue Boxster S, but when I went to look at it the owner was washing it with an old dirty rag and a bucket of brown water. The day was almost over and there was one last car to look at, a 2003 Boxster S with 38,591 km that I found on Craigslist. I was a little skeptical of a car from Craigslist but we met at the owner's underground parking spot. The car was immaculate and very well taken care of. The owner had all the maintenance records from new and was the third owner. After looking over the car from top to bottom I could not find anything wrong with it. I gave my offer and went for dinner. Just as I was ordering my food I got the call, he would accept my offer. After a very quick dinner we managed to get the transfer papers just before the nearest insurance broker closed! I now had to make it from Kitsilano to Horseshoe Bay and catch the ferry with an empty tank! Let it be known that you can drive from Kitsilano to Nanaimo through downtown Vancouver traffic with the tank showing empty in a Boxster S …. Let’s see a Corvette make it that far. One of my first events with my new car was Black Rock, and I can tell you it is worth every penny to attend and partake in the Driver Education and Autocross. We have some very skilled driving instructors that come out. I can tell you that I learned a lot about my new car out on the track and felt a lot safer on the road knowing how to handle the car in an emergency situation. I have also have attended a few Club autocross events at Western Speedway this is a great location for learning the limits of your car in a safe environment. The nice thing about autocross is you are only competing against your own time and can complete the course at your own pace. Over the past four years I have made some slight modifications to the car. I have modified my headlight assemblies to fit Bi-Xenon projectors. This modification is one of the best things I have done to the car. The difference while driving at night is unbelievable! One of my other favorite modifications has to be installing a short shifter. I do not think I could go back to driving without a short shifter! The exhaust note on the car was a little quiet for my liking, I managed to find a great deal on a new
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sports exhaust with secondary cat deletes. I love the sound and the gurgling and pops on deceleration and as a bonus my neighbors have not complained about it so far. While browsing the Boxster forums I found and installed a very subtle aftermarket spoiler. The new spoiler still uses the factory designed air dam and is stable at high speeds while looking great. The most recent addition was the flashing 3rd brake light module. I can report that it has been working well so far. I have done a few cosmetic modifications as well. I have a set of Carrera GT replica center caps, the look has grown on me over the years. I have also painted the S on the rear trunk lid red, I am not sure why this was never an option from the factory. I have also replaced my windscreen with an etched version that can be illuminated with LED’s. I have had to do very minimal maintenance to the car in the last four years. The biggest repairs have been replacing the axle boots and the key fob! I am not overly concerned about the dreaded IMS problems. I change my oil every 10,000 km and use Motul 5w40. I always cut my old oil filters and inspect for any metal particles and so far it has been clean. I plan on changing out the IMS when I replace the clutch. I have run Michelin Super Sports for the past four years. I tend to get three years out of the fronts and two years from the rears, considering my driving style I think that very reasonable. This past week I passed 98,600 km and hope to enjoy many more!
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Coffee & Cars Photos ere are some recent photos of our weekend gatherings at Coffee & Cars. If you have any that you think merit including, please send them to us via newsletter@virpca.org
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See you at the next Coffee & Cars? Details for meeting at our 3 locations are at http://virpca.org/vir-events/ coffee-and-cars/
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VIR PCA Discounts f you have received a discount from anywhere that you believe would be applicable to others in the club, please let me know via email to my address on page 4 and we shall get it added to this list.
Where
Discount
Lordco
Up to 30%
Porsche Center Victoria Scoot City Tours, Las Vegas
15%
Description Car parts etc. Mention Porsche Club of America. www.lordco.com Parts & labour www.porschevictoria.com
20% off 2017 Quote “VIRPCA” for 20% off 3 wheel scooter-car tours tours and the Hoover Dam Fat Tire Electric Bike tour during 2017. www.scootcitytours.com
Competition Corner Caption Contest—extended entry! We have had a few entries for the caption contest, but need some more, so put on your thinking caps. Send us a caption that fits the photo below from the recent Porsche Customer Appreciation event taken at VIMC (Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit) with Tyson Johnson (Porsche Victoria) saying something to driver Brad Blaney (our Past President) with Michael Holan (our Secretary) in the passenger seat. Send it to newsletter@virpca.org for a chance to win a Steve Anderson signed poster of great Porsche models from 1948 to 2016 (or maybe a new poster we have received, see earlier) Also, keep those Porsche photos coming in please.
Steve Fairbrother Newsletter Director PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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Dean’s Dinner—Duck Confit Here is another recipe recommended by your Mid-Island Director Dean Aikenhead via www.paprikaapp.com. This Duck Confit is required for the next part—the Cassoulet
Prep Time: 30 min | Cook Time: 4 hour | Servings: 2 confited duck legs | Difficulty: Easy Ingredients 2 duck legs (thighs attached) 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper (maybe do 1/4 teaspoon if you don't love black pepper) 3 garlic cloves, minced fine Leaves of 4 thyme sprigs, chopped fine 2 cups rendered duck fat 1 Turkish bay leaf Directions: 1. Using a safety pin or a needle, prick the skin of your duck legs all over (try not to poke into the meat, just poke the skin). Rub your duck legs with salt, pepper, garlic, and thyme, place them in a small glass dish (a glass loaf pan works), cover, and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. 2. After 24 to 36 hours, preheat your oven to 200° F. 3. Heat your duck fat in a saucepan until just melted (don’t get it hot, just melt it). 4. Once it’s melted, remove it from the heat allow it to cool slightly. Pour fat over the seasoned duck legs until they are completely submerged. Throw the bay leaf into the fat, cover the dish with foil, and cook for approximately 4 hours, or until the meat is easily pulling away from the bones. 5. After four hours, carefully remove the duck legs from the dish with a slotted spoon. Strain your fat through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, discarding all solids and reserving the fat (or keep the fat to spread on bread). Place duck legs back into cooking vessel and cover in strained fat. Let cool at room temperature for about an hour before refrigerating for 8 hours. 6. Right before serving, remove legs from fat, scraping off excess, and cook in a cast-iron skillet, skin-side down, for about 15 minutes, or until the meat is heated through and the skin is crispy.
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Dean’s Dinner—Cassoulet Prep Time: 3 hour | Servings: 8-10 | Difficulty: Medium
3. In an earthenware or heavy-bottomed pot, add the Ingredients onions, carrots, celery and duck fat from your pan, 1 1/2 pounds boneless pork shoulder season with salt and pepper, and sauté until soft and Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper golden. Add the tomato paste, mashing it with a 2 pounds dried Tarbais beans or cannellini beans spoon. Add the chicken stock and bring to a simmer. 1 bunch sage With kitchen twine, tie the parsley, thyme, and bay 1 head garlic, halved lengthwise, unpeeled, plus 4 leaves together and submerge the herbs in the stock. peeled cloves Roll and tie the pork skin with twine and add to the 1/3 cup duck fat stock. Add the beans and simmer for an hour, then 1 pound thick-cut bacon cut the heat. Submerge the ham hock, pulled duck 1 (1 1/2-pound) ham hock meat, pork shoulder and bacon into the pot of beans. 4 confit duck legs Cover and refrigerate overnight. 2 medium onions, chopped 3 small carrots, diced 4. The day you’ll serve the 2 ribs celery, diced cassoulet, preheat the ov1 tablespoon tomato paste en to 325°F. Remove the 2 quarts unsalted chicken herbs and pork skin from stock the pot and discard. Re2 sprigs parsley trieve the garlic head from 1 small bunch thyme the pot and squeeze the 2 bay leaves softened cloves out of their 1 (6-inch) square uncured papery skins and stir into pork skin the cassoulet. On a cutting 1 stale baguette board, mash the 4 peeled Olive oil garlic cloves to a paste 1 small bunch parsley, with a pinch of salt — the leaves chopped slow-cooked garlic will be 3 leaves fresh sage, nice and sweet, while the minced fresh garlic provides punch 3 sprigs oregano, leaves — and stir the garlic paste chopped into the cassoulet. Bring the cassoulet to a simmer, Directions then slide it into the oven 1. Two days before you plan to serve the cassoulet, and bake for an hour. season the pork shoulder with salt and pepper and soak the beans overnight in plenty of water. The next 5. Meanwhile, trim the crust from the baguette. Cut day, drain, rinse and place the beans in a large or me- into cubes, spread out on a baking sheet, and bake dium pot with plenty of cold water, the sage, and the until dry to the touch. Pulse the dried bread in a food halved garlic. Bring to a bare simmer and cook for processor until large crumbs form. Toss with olive oil one hour. Cut the heat, add a handful of salt, and let and season with salt and pepper. Return to the baking the beans sit on the stove top while you proceed with sheet and bake until crisp and golden, about 10 the recipe. minutes. Toss the bread crumbs with the parsley, sage and oregano. Sprinkle the bread crumbs over 2. Melt the duck fat in a pan over low heat and slowly the top of the cassoulet and bake for 30 minutes brown the bacon on both sides until crisp. Transfer more. Remove from the oven and let the cassoulet sit the bacon to a platter. Brown the ham hock on all on the counter for 10 minutes while you test your resides in the duck fat and transfer to the platter with solve. the bacon. Do the same with your pork shoulder. Slowly warm the confit duck legs in the fat and trans- Notes: optional you can replace the olive oil with the fer to the platter. Let the legs cool slightly, then pick leftover duck fat for tossing with the bread crumbs. the meat and discard the skin and bones. Cut the pork shoulder into large cubes, with a good amount of fat left intact. PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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Off The Island elow is an email from our neighbouring Pacific Northwest Region advising us of a couple of their events that may be of interest to our members.
Hello Fellow Zone 6 team members! My name is Shay Hoelscher and I am the Driver ED chair for the Pacific Northwest Region. I am writing to get your engagement for two very special events that we are holding this year in hopes that you and your fellow club members will join us! I am thrilled to announce that we will be holding these two unique events for our club:1. Our very first annual women’s only DE- June 9th Pacific Raceways in Kent WA See the link below, which is the article that I wrote and published in our club magazine, feel free to share and get some of your members to come and join us! http://bit.ly/2mJDNdB
2. Zone 6 Oregon Raceway Park Weekend June 24th - 25th I have had the good fortune to drive many tracks, this is one of my favorites and am so excited to host our event at this track! I have a special negotiated hotel price for a hotel in The Dalles, Oregon - Hotel Name: Cousins Country Inn-special rate of US $99 per night. You have to call to get this rate: 1 800 848 9378 Special rate code is “PCA-PNWR”. Go here to sign up for this event…. https://www.motorsportreg.com/index.cfm/event/event.dashboard/uidEvent/DC7160B2-E5FA76BA-36A94657DA3A05EC/uidMember/2659CB29-9190-DA7D-4E494CEAD76894AC
Please feel free to reach out, email or call me at the number below. I hope to meet each and every one of you! Shay Hoelscher Driver Education Chair Porsche Club of America Pacific Northwest Region Direct: 1 206 518 3874 drivered@PNWR.org
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Nanaimo Tech Night n April 13, 2017, seventeen enthusiasts met at European Specialty Automotive Services in Nanaimo for a technical session about their favourite car - Porsche. Did the same bells that rang in my head just ring in yours? You are not alone.
First we split in two groups—one for air cooled and one for water cooled. Next, Phil the mechanic and George the technician, facilitated discussions including IMS bearings and the signs to be aware of for potential failure, brakes, spring tune up, oil changes and how to inspect the condition of the oil, and several other topics. After that Chris the detailer, facilitated a detailing session on one of those “other’ German cars that needed work as an example of years of neglect and how to bring it back to new condition. Thank you to Caleb Hartman the owner and Chris, George and Phil for donating their time to host the group in their shop after hours. I look forward to scheduling another of these sessions in the future and hope to see you there. Don’t worry about the bells you heard earlier. No counselling required. Just get behind the wheel of your car and drive!
Dean Aikenhead Mid-Island Director
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Review—000 Magazine
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e were kindly sent two copies of the prototype issue of 000 Magazine. One copy we have kept safe and secure and that will go into the Black Rock auction coming up soon to raise funds for the charities we support. My thoughts on the (prototype) magazine are:Padded mailing is used & the issue weighs 2½ lbs
On the prototype, heavy card is used for front and back covers, heavyweight paper throughout. Actual issues will have “embossed, suede-finish soft covers” according to publishers. The issues are ‘perfect bound’, 250+ pages, very few adverts (5-7%), so lots of content to read. Subscription US $250 = 4 issues per year, or US $999/ year Limited Edition subscription ‘S’, premium, embossed hardcover in black, alloy ‘VIN’ plate, individual-
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ly numbered, yearly slipcase suitable for display.
000 is taken from plaques used in special Porsches such as pre-production models e.g. 000/918 for the 918 Spyder. So the publishers use it to indicate a very special magazine—which it is. Prototype issue had very good articles, including :Copies of 1971 wind tunnel testing reports carried out in the UK for Porsche. 40+ pages on the VW Type 64 vehicle (on the cover), not a Porsche but designed by them. 40+ pages on the Porsche 914. 20+ pages on the Boxster Studie—the original Boxster shown at 1993 Detroit Auto Show.
For Porsche fans, this magazine offers content probably not seen elsewhere and in a depth that I certainly have not observed in other publications. A lot of thought and care has gone into the publication, it is extremely well produced, easy on the eyes and I can imagine that subscribers will want to keep the issues away from their garage/shop environment. For Canadian subscribers however, as 000 is a US based magazine, the exchange rate affects the annual cost to receive this fantastic magazine. Let us know if you do subscribe yourself or buy it for your loved one, I am sure it is a purchase that you will not regret. More pictures overleaf.
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Detailing #2—Washing the Wheels Before we get started, I want to check in and see how you did with your homework assignment. In the last issue I asked you to think about 4 questions regarding the care of your car. 1. How clean do you want to keep your car? 2. Where do you store your car? 3. How often do you drive your car? 4. How are you going to clean your car and how often?
The idea was to get you started thinking about a plan to take care of the appearance of your car. I’m not going to grade your homework. We’ll all see the results the next time we see your car.
By Bill Elwell
From this point forward, I’m going to try to do two things. First, I’m going to do my best within the space I have here in the newsletter to teach you how to keep your car in top shape with the least effort. Second, even if you don’t ever plan to pick up a microfiber towel to wash your car, I’m going to show you the ins and outs of the current car care products, so that you know what your detailer is talking about. Here is the four step process that covers what we all should be thinking about when it comes to caring for and protecting the incredibly thin coat of paint on our cars. 1. Clean – The first step is to thoroughly clean the exterior of your car including the wheels and wheel wells. Any dirt that is left on the car will scratch the paint once you start the next steps. 2. Decontaminate – There are two types of paint contamination. First, dirt that sits on the surface of the paint and is only lightly bonded to the paint will be removed when we wash the car. The second category is bonded contaminates which are tiny bits of debris that have either tightly bonded to the paint or actually become embedded into the paint. The process of removing this stuff is called decontamination. I’m betting that most of you have heard of using clay to decontaminate paint. But there are a couple newer methods I’ll teach you in a later article. 3. Polish – If your paint has any number of defects, polishing can remove most, or maybe, all of them. 4. Protect – The last step in the process is to apply something that will protect the paint. Historically this has been some form of wax. Today, there are other options to consider. I’ll cover this as well. I know, I said this article was about washing wheels. I had to explain all that so that I could tell you that we are going to start this journey at the beginning with washing your vehicle. And the first step in washing a vehicle is washing the wheels. Now, I know that you’ve always been taught to wash a car from the top down. Once we start washing the rest of the car, we will wash from the top down. But we do the wheels first because it’s a messy job that throws dirt and dirty water everywhere. Life is a lot easier when the rest of the car is still dirty and we don’t have to worry about where all the crap from the wheels flies. Let’s start by talking about wash buckets. In a perfect world, we would all have two 5 gallon buckets on wheels. Here’s a picture of my wash bucket rig. Why two buckets? One is for soapy wash water and the other is for dirty rinse water. Your washing tools start in the clean soapy water. You use a tool to clean something and then dunk it into the rinse bucket which has no soap. The dirt comes off in the rinse bucket and then you move the tool PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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to the soapy water bucket and start the process again. This does a fantastic job at preventing dirt from making its way back onto your car. If you use this method, you’ll find that the rinse water gets REALLY dirty, but the soapy water stays almost completely clean. This is the two bucket wash method. Oh yeah, those grills beside the buckets are grit guards. They sit at the bottom of the buckets. Dirt falls off your washing tools and sinks below the grit guard so that it isn’t picked up and returned to your car. Some folks even dunk their tools and mitts deep enough in the bucket to scrub it against the grit guard a bit. The next step is choosing a wheel cleaning chemical. If you choose one of the wheel cleaners from Griot’s or almost any over the counter product at your local auto supply store, you’ll be in safe territory. Most of us have alloy wheels that are either painted or powder coated and they will tolerate just about any wheel cleaning chemical. For these wheels, I use a professional acidic wheel cleaner that cuts through brake dust very nicely. But be careful, you can’t use acidic wheel cleaners on bare metal, chrome, or anodized aluminum. If you have chrome wheels, there are numerous brands of wheel cleaner specifically made for chrome wheels. In addition to wheel cleaner, it’s really handy to have some sort of degreaser or all-purpose cleaner. I use Meguiar’s Super Degreaser. Griot’s sells Oil & Grease Cleaner. We also use car wash soap in this process but I’ll talk a little about that in the article about washing the car. Now for the tools. Here is my wheel cleaning tool kit. It consists of a Mother’s Wheel and Well brush kit (3 brushes at the top of the picture), a lug nut brush from Griot’s, and two Speed Master brushes (at the bottom of the picture). I’ll admit that I almost never use the brush in the upper right corner of the picture. Instead of the Speed Master brushes, some detailers like Wheel Woolies. I will admit that Wheel Woolies are more effective on really really dirty wheels and I’m going to switch over to them when my Speed Masters start to wear out. You can Google “wheel woolies” if you want to check them out. Griot’s sells equivalent brushes to everything I’ve mentioned here. Now that we’ve got the tools and chemicals under controls, let get started on the process. The time required to clean a wheel varies significantly depending on the complexity of the wheel and how much of it you are cleaning. A Porsche Turbo Twist wheel is dead simple to clean. If you have one of Porsche’s complex multi spoke designs, it will take longer.
Let’s talk for a moment about how much of the wheel we’re going to clean. Most people simply clean the face of the wheel and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some people go to the extreme of removing the wheels and cleaning not only the face but the inside of the wheel, which is called the barrel. I use a hybrid method where I clean most of the barrel without removing the wheels. It takes a little longer than just cleaning the face of the wheel but the wheel looks nicer when you can look past the spokes and see a clean barrel behind the spokes. OK, let’s get dirty. I did warn you that washing wheels is dirty business, right? 1. Fill one of your wash buckets with water and the second bucket with car wash soap and water. For doing the wheels, I mix the soapy water at half strength. If you’re only using one bucket, just fill it with soapy water. Put all your tools in the soapy water. 2. Take your hose and rinse the wheels wells and the wheels. If your wheels are really dirty, the water will run down the driveway with streaks of black brake dust. Give the water a minute to drain before starting the next step. PORSCHER — MAY 2017
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3. Pick a wheel and liberally spray the wheel well with degreaser. Then liberally spray the tire sidewall and wheel including the barrel and caliper with wheel cleaner. Using the least amount of wheel cleaner doesn’t win you an award. The wheel cleaner is there to make your life easier, so use it. Now give the wheel cleaner a minute to do its job. 4. Grab the long handled brush and scrub the wheel well. If you have larger than stock wheels, you may not be able to get the brush into the whole wheel well area. Put the brush into the rinse bucket. 5. Grab one of the two short handle brushes and scrub the tire sidewall along with the outer rim of the wheel and as much of the surface of the spokes and center hub area as possible. Put the brush into the rinse bucket. 6. Grab the larger of the two Speed Master brushes and start systematically brushing each opening in the wheel and reaching back into each opening to scrub the barrel and the brake caliper. I’ll rinse the brush in the rinse bucket and then dunk it in the soap bucket after every one or two wheel openings. While they are great brushes, the Speed Masters will sling dirt and water everywhere. Take your time. Put the brush into the rinse bucket when you’re done. 7. If you have smaller spokes or tight spaces that the large Speed Master brush can’t clean, attack those spaces with the smaller brush. Many times the only way I can reach parts of the brake caliper is with the small brush. Many wheels now have a design that has a decorative channel that runs around the wheel behind the spokes. This creates little pockets behind each spoke that you really need to clean but they are a bear to clean quickly. I put a slight bend in the shaft of my small Speed Master brush and it reaches those pockets perfectly. Depending on the design of your wheel, you may not need the small Speed Master brush. 8. Pick the lug nut brush out of the bucket and give it half a dozen twists around each lug nut. Put the brush in the rinse bucket. 9. Before you rinse the wheel, go to the next wheel and spray the wheel well with degreaser and the tire and wheel with wheel cleaner. 10. Go back to the wheel you just finished cleaning and rinse the wheel and wheel well with a hose. 11. Move the brushes from the rinse bucket, let them drain for a moment and return them to the soap bucket. If your wheels are very dirty, you may need to dump your rinse bucket and refill it. Move to the next wheel and go back to step 4. I’m assuming that you’ll be washing your car after this so we’ll talk about drying the wheels and dressing the tires and wells later. Dump both of the buckets. Don’t even think about reusing the water to wash your car. Some shops will use wheel cleaner and a pressure washer to clean the wheels. That method is really fast and it will clean the wheel faces nicely. I don’t use that method because it doesn’t clean the barrels and the setup and teardown time for the pressure washer is almost as long as it takes to wash the wheels by hand. I’ll admit that reading my words only goes so far when it comes to trying to describe the process of washing a wheel. There are hundreds of videos out there on cleaning wheels but I’m going to recommend one specifically. Go to YouTube and search for “How to Clean Wheels Professionally” and the first video is from Melody at Pure Reflections Detailing. Her video nails it. Yeah, she only uses one bucket but she rinses each brush before putting it back in the bucket. And she uses a few more brushes than I do but the basics are there and it’s well presented. Thanks for reading. Next time we’ll get into washing the car. If all this seem more than you really want to get involved with, I’m sure there is qualified detailer in your area that can hook you up. You can write to me at billelwell@hotmail.com.
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“Around the Bend” May 6—7 Info here
Quadra Island Jaunt + Wine Tasting Saturday: Campbell River to Quadra Island, Heriot Bay Inn lunch, Rebecca Spit Provincial Park, Southend Farm Winery and dinner at Tsa Kwa Luten. Optional Sunday: Choose Whale/Wildlife tour, golf etc. Accommodation limit is 20 people. See website for more details or click link on left
Contact: Wendy Woodley
May 10 5.30 / 6pm
Executive Monthly Meeting—May Quality Foods Boardroom, Eagle Creek Village, Victoria 5.30pm dinner, 6.30pm meeting. Members are welcome, please advise Michael for numbers
Contact: Michael Holan
May 25-28 Info here
Black Rock—Charity Event Black Rock Oceanfront Resort , 596 Marine Dr, Ucluelet, V0R 3A0 $175 per person. This event raises money for two charities: Cops For Cancer “Tour de Rock” & Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade.
Contact: BR Committee
June 10 10am-3pm Info here
Porsches Helping Pets A towel drive & fund raiser for the Comox Valley S.P.C.A. Last year we raised $760, the goal this year is $911. Members and the public are invited to bring clean & gently used towels. Donation boxes are available for cash donations. Around 11:30 we will enjoy a drive in the local area, followed by lunch.
Contact: Wendy Woodley
July 9-15 Info here
PCA Parade — Spokane Get registered & book ASAP, see the advert in this issue.
Contact: Didier Moinier
August 5/6
Gold River Run
Martin
September 10
Membership Lunch
John
September 17
Port Renfrew Loop
Michael
October 7/8
Wine Drive
Dean
October 15
Autocross / Chili Challenge
Conrad / Brad
October 29
RotorMaxx Tour
Didier
November 4/5
Year End Gathering
Martin
November 18 / 19
Annual General Meeting
Brad
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